Twerking robot assistants, an app from Saudi Arabia that lets men track women, and a gnarly skiing security snarl-up!

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by technology journalist Geoff White.

How would *you* track someone who owed you money? What was the colossal flaw Facebook left on its website for anyone to exploit and hijack accounts? And what excuse are insurance companies giving for not paying victims of the NotPetya malware millions of dollars?

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Joe Carrigan of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Is two factor authentication such a pain in the rear end that it’s costing the economy millions? Do you feel safe having a Google Nest in your home? And don’t get caught by a catfisher this Valentine’s Day.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by B J Mendelson.

It’s easy to imagine the harm that could result from a hacker reading users’ private communications on a dating app. So it’s a disgrace that more don’t offer a higher level of security to help prevent accounts from being hijacked.

Jack Rhysider from the “Darknet Diaries” podcast joins us to chat about his interview with the elusive Hacker Giraffe, how a death is preventing cryptocurrency investors from reaching their money, and how ‘beauty camera’ apps are redirecting users to phishing websites and stealing their selfies.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast, hosted by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

FaceTime bug allows callers to see and hear you *before* you answer the phone, Facebook’s Nick Clegg tries to convince us the social network is changing its ways, and IoT hacking is big in Japan.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by John Hawes from AMTSO.

Forbes journalist Thomas Brewster wanted to find out just how well a variety of Android phones and a top-of-the-range Apple iPhone would fare against a determined attempt to break facial recognition. And he did that by having a 3D-model printed of his head.

Two iOS fitness apps have been found exploiting a sneaky user interface trick to fool users into making unwanted in-app purchases with Touch ID.

]]>https://www.grahamcluley.com/fitness-tracking-apps-caught-misusing-touch-id-to-steal-money-from-iphone-users/feed/0More details on One Planet York app vulnerability don’t paint council in a good lighthttps://www.grahamcluley.com/more-details-on-one-planet-york-app-vulnerability-doesnt-paint-council-in-a-good-light/
https://www.grahamcluley.com/more-details-on-one-planet-york-app-vulnerability-doesnt-paint-council-in-a-good-light/#commentsTue, 27 Nov 2018 14:01:21 +0000https://www.grahamcluley.com/?p=293615

New information has come to light which makes it more difficult to defend York city council’s actions and communications in response to being told about a vulnerability in its One Planet York app.

]]>https://www.grahamcluley.com/more-details-on-one-planet-york-app-vulnerability-doesnt-paint-council-in-a-good-light/feed/1Did UK city council over-react to a vulnerability report in its recycling app or not?https://www.grahamcluley.com/one-city-york-vulnerability/
https://www.grahamcluley.com/one-city-york-vulnerability/#respondMon, 26 Nov 2018 23:41:06 +0000https://www.grahamcluley.com/?p=293546

Some in the computer security community feel that the council over-reacted by reporting the incident to the police.